Singer/actor Harry Connick, Jr hosts a daytime talk show titled Harry. The show blends the usual talk show guest spots with variety and live music segments.
The tapes in New York City and free audience tickets for the tapings are available online.
To apply for tickets, go to the show’s tickets web page, select the show date you’re interested in from the calendar, and fill out the ticket request form.
For details about attending at taping, see the show’s FAQ page.
Location
Harry tapes at the CBS Broadcast Center, West 57th Street in Manhattan. The studio is located on West 57th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues, near Columbus Circle.
Belvedere Castle in Central Park. Photo by Captain-tucker (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia CommonsClimb to the top of Belvedere Castle for some great views of Central Park and the surrounding city.
Belvedere Castle isn’t really a castle, but rather a small ornate structure built to add to the Central Park scenery.
The castle was constructed in 1865 and is an example of what was known in the Victorian era as a “folly”, meaning a structure intended to provide views and a picturesque backdrop but without any use as a building. These days the castle has another purpose in addition to sitting up on the hillside and looking great; Belvedere now serves as a Central Park visitor center and gift shop. It’s one of the places where you can pick up a free copy of the official Central Park map.
Belvedere Castle is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily, except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day.
Location
Belvedere Castle is located in Central Park, mid-park, near the 79th Street Transverse.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Museum of Natural History are nearby on the east the west sides of the park, so if you’re visiting either of those, a visit to Belvedere Castle is a fairly short walk.
NYC’s Easter Parade is a tradition that dates back to the 1870s. According to Widipedia, the Easter Parade drew over a million people during its peak of popularity in the 1940s and 50sThe Easter Parade may not be as popular as it once was, but lots of people still head out to 5th Avenue wearing their best Easter bonnets on Easter day.
New York’s Easter Parade was featured on the big screen in the 1948 movie, Easter Parade, starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, You’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade ….
The Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival, as it’s called today, is a rather informal affair. There’s no pre-parade line-up or marching order. Everyone is encouraged to participate. Dressing up in your Easter best is encouraged. Some participants will be seen wearing more traditional finery, while others wear elaborate costumes of all types. And, of course, there are the hats – the very elaborate, sometimes beautiful and often comical, hats.
The Easter Parade is held on Easter Sunday on Fifth Avenue, from 49th Street to 57th Street from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m..
Columbia University presents a program of free noontime musical performances at the university’s Faculty House building. The concerts feature Columbia University students and music associates. Most are solo instrumentalist recitals, but there are sometimes duos or small ensembles scheduled.
There are performances scheduled for most Wednesdays January – April and October – early December.
Faculty House is an on-campus event space housed in a brick and limestone building originally constructed in 1923. Garden Room 1, where the Mid-Day Music concerts are held, is on the first floor.
Location
Mid-Day Music is held at Faculty House on the campus of Columbia University in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan.
The street address is 64 Morningside Drive, New York, NY.
Photo by Rubin Museum of Art (Rubin Museum of Art) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsEach Friday night from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., the The Rubin opens for free extended hours known as K2 Friday Nights.
During these evening events, the museum’s Café Serai transforms into the K2 Lounge with DJ music, a 2-for-1 happy hour from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., and a special pan-Asian tapas menu.
The K2 Friday Night events also feature free guided exhibition highlights tours that encourage close observation and conversation.
Regular admission to the museum is $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, and $10 for students. Children 12 years of age and younger are admitted free.
Seniors are admitted free on the first Monday of each month.
The Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin Museum of Art features art from the Himalayas, India, and neighboring regions and seeks to engage visitors in a way that encourages personal discovery and connection with other cultures.
The museum has five gallery floors which display permanent collections and special exhibitions.
The Rubin Museum, which opened in 20014, is a relatively new addition to New York City’s collection of art museums. The museum started with a private collection of Himalayan art held by Donald and Shelley Rubin. The Rubins purchased the former Barneys New York building in 1998 and it was transformed into a modern art gallery space for display of the museum’s collections and traveling exhibitions.
New York’s Tartan Day Parade is a celebration of Scottish heritage. The parade is a festive event with lots of marchers and pipe bands decked out in traditional Scottish tartans.
The 2017 Tartan Day Parade is Saturday, April 8th. The parade starts at 2:00 p.m..
The parade route begins at West 45th Street and 6th Avenue and continues up 6th Avenue to 55th Street.
Tartan Day
April 6th was officially established as National Tartan Day by the U.S. Senate in 1997. The date commemorates the 1320 signing of the Declaration of Arbroath, which asserted Scotland’s sovereignty over English territorial claims. Read more about Tartan Day history at The American-Scottish Foundation website.
Bryant Park, in cooperation with the New York Audubon Society, offers spring and fall birding tours of Bryant Park. The tour dates are scheduled to coincide with the spring and fall bird migrations, when you’re most likely to see unusual birds who might stop in the city during their trips north of south.
Bryant Park’s spring tours are in April and May and fall tours take place in September and October. See the Bird Tours section of the Bryant park website for a Birding Tours Schedule.
The birding tours are free and open to the public.
Bryant Park might not be the first of New York City’s parks you would think of for bird watching. Central Park is the better known spot for New York City birding. Central Park’s enormous size and variety of landscape does provide some of the best habitat for birds in the city. All that space can be a little intimidating, though. It’s hard to know where to start to look. Although Bryant Park isn’t likely to attract the variety of birds found at the larger park, the compact size makes spotting what is there more manageable.
Even with its smaller size, Bryant Park does get a nice variety of birds during the migration seasons. According to NYC Audubon’s web page about Bryant Park, 121 different species of birds have been spotted in the Bryant Park, including 32 species of warblers (tiny and often colorful woodland birds most frequently seen during migrations). That’s pretty impressive for such a small patch of land in the middle of the city.
The 2017 Greek Independence Day Parade in New York City is Sunday, March 26th. The parade starts at 1:45 p.m, beginning at Fifth Avenue and 64th Street and ending at Fifth Avenue and 79th Street.
The event is organized by The Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York and marks the Greek Declaration of Independence with a celebration of Hellenic culture and traditions.
The New York City Greek Independence Day Parade has been happening since 1938.
Adrian evening dress, 1947, USA, printed rayon textile by Wesley Simpson/Salvador Dali. From the Adrian : Hollywood and Beyond Museum at FIT Exhibition.
The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) operates a museum that is open to the public free of charge.
The museum has three galleries, one that features special exhibitions, one that displays a portion of the museum’s permanent collection, and one for student and faculty exhibitions. Visit the museum website for information about special exhibitions on display.
The Fashion Institute of Technology is one of the top five fashion schools in the world. The college, which is part of the State University of New York system, offers degrees in art, business, design, and other fields related to the fashion industry.
Location and Hours of Operation
The Museum at FIT is located in Midtown Manhattan on 7th Avenue at 27th Street.
The street address is 227 West 27th Street.
The museum is open Tuesday – Friday from noon to 8:00 p.m. and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.. The museum is closed on Sundays and Mondays.
